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pumpkin seed search

Dear Fellow Pumpkiners:

	I'm seeking to make additions to my collection of giant pumpkin seed.  
	I recently found a source in the UK for Mammoth Pumpkin at Thomas Etty
Esq.  (http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~nfarley/thomas-etty) Mommoth is a
very old variety of giant pumpkin, originating in the US, appearing in seed
lists as early as 1834.  It is  detailed in "The Vegetable Garden" by M.M.
Vilmorin-Andrieux dated 1885.  Mammoth is no longer commerically available
in the US and it is not listed as one of the 18,000 varieties in the Seed
Savers Exchange Yearbook.  This is a very important pumpkin because it is
the great great grandfather of most giant pumpkins known today.
	I am especially interested in obtaining; Goderich Giant Pumpkin, Genuine
Mammoth Pumpkin and Mammoth Tours Pumpkin.  These three pumpkins were used
by the Dill family of Nova Scotia to develop Atlantic Giant and Dill's
Atlantic Giant - which most on this list are very familiar.  None of these
three pumpkins are commerically available in the US any more, according to
the latest edition of the "Garden Seed Inventory," or listed with the SSE. 
Hopefully they are not extinct. 
	If any on this list have any of the above mentioned seed, or other unusual
giant pumpkin seed, I'd be very interested in a sample.  Can trade other
rare, non-commerical, giant pumpkin seeds in exchange.

Michael in Akron
mcohill@neo.lrun.com
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